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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

This table shows that instead of there
being an increase in only One institution
there is an increase in four. The insti-
tuition sh owing the largest increase is the
very first one Governor Foraker reor-
ganized, namely, the blind asylum, where
the increase is S37.o7 per capita. The
next institution he reorganiz 4 was tic
Ohio soldiers and sailors orphans home
and there the increase was sl@..H P
capita. The largest decrease is at til
Columbus asylum for insane, which i.
still under Democratic management.
The question, of course, as to which Q
the two tables is correct is l,gitimat,
one. But a little investigation Of III
Foraker Byers table will suffice 10 sh@.w
that it is utterly untrustwortAy in il Y,
In several instances the per 'apitt cili"it
lation Ton the hases of the figures aivrn
shows that neither thelnakeroi The t MA
(Byers), nor its endorser (Forak'r)e@ii ~
a sum in common division; or it shaNi
what is still worse, that they thought AZ
body would take the trouble to v.r
their work. Here for inst nee st
per capita cost OF three inst tl.ions
1886 as given by Byers-Foraker 81 n
side with the correct calculation ir'1.
the same figures, as given by McIugh
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06
Per Capita Cost, 1856
Per Capita Cost, 1885.

Governor Foraker calls particular at
tention to the alleged fact that the Board
Of State Charities is "a non.partisan
board, composed Of three Democrats and
three Republicans" He omits, however,
to state that he himself (certainly not .
non-partisan) Is ex otfcso president Of the
board and that q person by the name Of
Byers, whose chief distinction is that he
is narrow-minded and bitter Republi-
can, is Its salaried Secretary Qualifca-
ton for the position other than that Of
ipartisanship, and Of fealty to Foraker, be
seems to have none. And in this re-
spect 1t must Be said that be comes up
to the Foraker standard. In the ability
to pervert facts he is a::worthy and fit sub
ordinate Of the Governor.
After reciting the foregoing table at
Caldwell, the President Of the Board Of
State Charities, Foraker, added Such
figures need no elaboration. They elo-
.quently and conclusively refute all
charges Of extrayagance.' Z AT Toledo he
had said Of the table: ~ u absolutely
accurate. II
IA few simple statements will suffice To
show what Governor Foraker means
when he calls thing accurate" and to
dispose of this astatistical'' eloquence.
The Governor, as President of the Board,
ought certainly to have known, before
presenting tilaln, wllteae 1ne l.sssrcs Of
Ehis saperseryiceable Secretary we're Cor
reet for y i piece Of the prsttiest
political dishonesty Il make the amiable
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

"
There IL. aside nom oil the o:hr re-
prehensible features Of Governor Fora
kers campaign oratory, a loosenass a
reckleaness Of statement pervading it
that Is as astonishing as It is outrageous.
We cn not remember an instance of
public man Of his wonld-be prominence
who ever treated the mass of sensible
and thinking people as fools and dupes
to the extent that Foraker has done and
continues to do. Ordinarily. men who
respect themselves, and who are not
wanting in like respect for their fellow
men, have some slight regard for truth in
their public utterances Even political
scoundrel, II he has clear head, little
foresight, and some knowledge of human
nature, will not attempt to gull his hear
ers with alleged facts that are not facts at
all. But whether from lack of self-re-
spect or of respect for bis neighbors from
fatal habit that is the outgrowth OF men
tai defect, or from some unexplained in
trinity of moral Judgment Mr.. Foraker
is seemingly unable to open his mouth
without making the most insulting de-
mands upon the credulity and stupidity
Of those who listen to him.
If he did this by means OF mere rhetor-
ical generalities, it might perhaps be
less surprising; but he boldly ventures
forth upon fields where there is no room
for the legit mate exercise OF the imagin-
alton or of appeal to partisan prejudice.
Public charity is not limited by any po-
litical affiliations, nor is the science OF
statistics usually understood to have any
party atlinities; and yet Mr.. Foraker's
latest and perhaps his most brazen at
tempt to hoodwink and delude the
people, is based upon the prostitution of
10th charity and statistics to his own
personal and selfish ends.
| It is well known that Mr.. Foraker had
scarcely warmed the gubernational chair
when he began to ''reorganize" the char
table institutions OF the state, /. e. to
turn out the old trustees and put in new
ones. He made it not merelya political
but a personal matter for even Repub-
licans, who were not willing to be hi
tools, were dismissed; and henchmen, who
could be relied upon to do as thy were
told, were put in their places. That the
Governor assumed a peculiar response
bility in doing this, noone will question
He himself, obtuse as he seems to be OF
most points OF official accountability ant
political honor, is aware of the fact. H,
knows that he owes the public, withou
distinction of party, an account of hi
personal stewardship of the state chari
ties; and he has given it once and again
once at Toledo and again at Caldwell
The sequel will show that possibly he
would have done better not to hav,
given it at all. sss;ss .;-s,'s'V ,esass ,....
| Governor Foraker, in justification o
his administration 50 iar as the stat
benevolent institutions are concerned
parades with great triumph table which
he alleges was Compiled by the Boar,
Of State Charities The table purport
to show that all the public institutions
with single exception, have been man
aged with greater degree Of economy
under the Foraker administration thar
under that of his predecessor; anc
reads as follows:
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

and respectable gentlemen, who do the
non-partisan slpernumerary business OF
the Board, in any way responsible for
what is done by the partisan leading
actors Byers made the table, whether
at the order Of Foraker, or as funkey's
tribute to his master, is not essential.
Foraker by quoting it, and vouching for
its absolute accuracy, became responsible
for it, and thereby responsible for most
disgraceful production. Either 1t is a
piece Of blundering boobyism Of which a
ten year old schoolboy ought TO be
ashamed or piece of political trickery
to which even Foraker might be ashamed
10 resort.
Happily the citizens of the state are
not dependent for correct information on
such work as is done by the Board Of
State Charities. There is another de-
partement in the capitol that is.nterested
in these very same figures, and in 1885
and in 1886 it prepared table showing
the per capita cost of maintaining the in
mates of public institutions. 1t is the
bureau of labor statistics with Hon.
Larkin McHugh at its head. OF course
Governor Foraker never examines this
report on the condition Of the toiling
masses for If he had, he might have
hesitated before he made his latest
blunder. The correct figures on the per
capita cost Of maintaining the inmates Of
public institutions for 1856 and 1886 and
the decrease and increase in 1886 as
compared with 1885 is found to be as
follows, the figures being taken from the
reports of the bureau of labor statistics
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

WHEN Ex-senator A. D. Fassett, Gov
ernor Foraker's reformed Labor Stati-
clan, leans pensively over his elegant
desk in the State House and gently In
serts the Autographs Of Little Breeches"
into mailing cartons, puts the postage
stamps bought with the public money
upon them, and addresses them to honest
workingmen in various parts Of the
State, he is undoubtedly performing the
dutiesof the Labor Bureau In accordance
with the civil service ideas u His illustri-
Gus boss. Fassett is model workingman
Of the Foraker kind, but'th kind Is not
good. [. q,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

This in itself is all that is required to
demonstrate which Of the tables is mos
likely to be trustworthy. But this is moi
all in the case of the REFORM school fo,
boys the Byers-F Foraker table does not
give the total current expenses and thus
gets the per capita cost down to the re-
markably low figure Of $90.41. The
labor statistician gives the current expen-
ses taken from official reports and makes
the per capita cost what it should be,
$122.S1.
The mistakes above enumerated, and
others made in the Report Of the Foraker
Byers board sfor 1885 are (Which is moi
strange all one way-they are all favor.
able to the Republican administration
in other words they are frauds perpe
trated under the banner Of non partisan
ship for the benefit Of the Foraker kind
Of Kepublicanism.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06
POINTERS FOR WoRKlNoMEN

4. v n 1
Who enacted the three hundred dol
lar exemption law? The Democratic
party.
Who placed upon the statue book the
mechanics lien law? The Democratic
party.
Who passed the first homestead bill in
Congress ? The Democratic party.
Who passed the act of Congress pro-
hitting the importation of foreign labor
ers under contract? |? The Democratic
party. ss
Who is enforcing the act prohibiting
the importation OF foreign laborers under
contract? .he Democratic party.
Who recovered for the use OF the
people many million acres of land do
mated tothe railroad corporations by the
Republican party2 The Democratic
party. %
Who aims to repeal the taxes that OPP
press the workinemen 7 The Democratic
party.
Ind no,o glance at the following, aohich
are against The interests of the auorkingn,en: /:
Who enacted the laws making it "a
criminal conspiracy for workingmen to
persuade workingmen from ac-
cepting low wages? The Republican
party.
Who enacted the law limiting damages
for the loss Of life by railroad employe
to $4,000 The Republican party. 9s
i Who voted away hundreds OF millions
Of the public lands to the railroad cor
porations? ? The Republican party.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

THE Democratic host through all its
ranks is marching swiftly to the over
throw ofcivilservice reform. Commercial
GdSstte.
Now that the Field Marshall has re-
turned from his European wanderings
after the Plumed Knight, he may possibly
be able 70 enlighten the people about the
overthrow" Of popular government in
Cincinnati by the late rump legislature
and the ringtailed reformer Joseph BEN
son Foraker After he has done this,
perhaps, he would like to expound the
peculiar beauties Of acivil service reform,
as practised by Foraker's Cincinnati
Board Of Public Affairs, which IRE
solved" that the municipal business Of
that city should be conducted in the In
terest Of the Republican party.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06

Itch, Prairie Mango, and Ecrat tches Of
every kind cured In thirty minutes BY
WooIford's Sanitary LotioA. Use no
other. Thisnever falls. Sold by D. j.
Humphrey, Napoleon. ny-5-lyr
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/. Institution for recbie- r
Mindcd Youth ~. &. $15sf8 $tTi IL.
3. Soldiers and Sailors
Orphans Home ..... 1885 IA /
8. Girls Industrial Home 1919 1a2
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-10-06
Total Number, Year.
Daily Ay'ge Inmates.

Total Current Ex-
penses for Year, In
cluding Salaries.
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
OLD-FASHIONED KITCHEN.

Tac old-fashioned kitchen, with kettles and
pans,
And gable-roof reaching above It;
With davies and lilies and 'sparrowgrass" beds
AL scattered about-oh, love 1t!
AT noon what feast, when the pies, nicely
baked,
From the oven with fragrance came greetingi
Two wandered all over but never have found
A place SO delicious for eating
The ivy that clings to the old kitchen porchs
Swings gracefully, quiet and steady
Where cxpectant sit as wait for the cali
Which tells me that dinner is ready"
a sweet little maiden whose elbows are aecked
By the traces OF dough and Of flour;
A china bowl brimming with roses as rare
AS e'ey gTaced a queen and her dover.
The piecrust SO crispy and buscMts so brown,
The roast-rib SO succuleEt, tender,
Tho coffee so fragrant, and eggs yellow gold;
The waitress, twice over send her.
The strawberry sauce and the green lettuce
dish,
The radishes ''snappy," all lay there;
Els feast for the gods and can not resist,
Quite manlike and hungry, but stay there.
the old-fashioned kitchen, with kettles and
pans,
And gable-roof reaching above it;
With daisies and lilies and 'Sparrowgrass"
beds
All scattered about-oh, I.love III
A sweet little maiden whose elbows are fecked
BY the traces Of dough and OF flour
Che won the way into my.heart, and guess
Twas done by her kitchens endover
H. S. Kel!sr, IN Good Housekeeping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
WOMEN'S TRADES UNIONS.

Tho women's Protective and Provident
League In LOndon--An Important Move
ment to Give It . Permanent Home.
A memorial has been projected to
the late Mrs. Paterson. Honorary Sec
rotary to the Women's Protective and
Provident League. 1t is proposed to
build Central Trades Hall in Lon
don. as common meeting-place and
local habitation for the Women's Trades
Union Societies. The league is pre-
pared to pay the working expenses of
the hall when it is built. Among the
speeches at the meeting to promote
this object were Mr.. Allanson Pictou,
M. p, Miss Miller and Miss Tod. They
pointed out that the increase of wages,
so as to make them more on par with
mems for equal work, is only one of
the advantages of this combination.
The League is not less valuable for the
self-restraint and fraternal feeling
which it cultivates; it adds. too, to the
self-reliance of the worker to find other
women engaged in similar occupa-
tions.
1t is remarkable how much before
us the French are in the matter of the
payment of women for skilled work.
As rule French women rece i've in
France the same wages rs men. as in
the Government printing press. the
Gobelin tapestry manufacture; and as
railway clerks and signal men. In
France greater variety of really fine
skilled work is assigned to women
than in other countries. The surgical
instrument makers are chiefly women.
and the critical operation of diamond
cutting. for which high wages are
given. is done by women. They work
also as jewellers and watch-makers.
Hundreds of girls are trained yearly as
compositors.
Last month l mentioned the tri-
umphs of GirtOn and Newman in the
recent examinations. The young Vic
toria University at Manchester. which
has lately opened its degrees to
women, has similar report to make,
as this letter from q correspondent
testifies:
1.-The success of the women students
of the Victoria University is conspicu-
Gus this year. The three women candi-
dates for the B. A. degree-Annie Kay.
Edith Lang and Ethel Rome-all Of
Owens College, are in the first divis-
ion, and. what is more, they have it to
themselves. There are no men above
the second division. Thisis. l believe,
the first time that women have tried
for this degree. Miss Acton. last years
B. A., having taken the honors course.
Eigh: women have also passed the in
termediate examination. four OF whom
were from Owens In the prelimina-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

~ examination there are four women
in the first division and one in the sec
ond. The women students Of the Vic
toria University evidently mean to
hold distinguished place in the lists
of the University. 1t is gratifying to
see women at last allowed to cultivate
their mental powers and make the
most Of the brains with which they are
endowed. One wonders now why the
permission was SO long delayed in this
country" -Rc6ecca Moore, tn Rcn,an's
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
SYSTEM IN FARMING.
4. - Importance OF True Economy In Az.
Ficultural Occupations.

80 Importance OF True Economy In Az
Ficultural Occupations.
There is no trade o. occupation in
life which true economy is as import
ant as in farming. By economy we do
not mean stinginess ordenying ones
self the common comforts of life. The
farmer who practices it can not expect
to command the esteem and respect Of
his fcllOw-men, nor retain it himself
Nor is it necessary in this connection
to admonish farmers of the importance
and necessity of saving what they
make. and of turning into ready cash
sil kinds Of products not needed on the
farm. But it is the little economies to
which we would now more particularly
direct the attention of farmers.
In the first place, the economical
farmer, is necessarily neat farmer.
He can not afford to allow weeds and
briers to grow up in his fence corners
to rob the soil of its fertility and rot
his fences. He can not afford to allow
his gates and farm implements to go tn
rack for the want of a little repair; his
farm buildings to do the same for the
want of little seeing to, well knowing
that much of the value of his property
depends upon its appearance.
Take any two farms of the same
number of acres lying in the same
neighborhood, and composed of the
same character of land. the one with
its fencing (were it not for the briers
and weeds that support iD about to
tumble down. its fields inconveniently
located. its buildings in q state of di-
lapidation without any approach or
lawn to give an air of comfort to the
premises, and the other with all these
improvements plainly in view, and the
differences in the market value of the
two will be from twenty to thirty per
cent in favor of the latter, simply ON
account of its neatness. Another es-
sential point in economical farming is
system. In no business is it more nec-
essary to success. Haphazard farm
ing may. it is true. earn living. such
as it is. for the time being. but can
never lay up any thing for q "rainy
day." The methOiical man, however.
always knows his business, and can 81
arrange it as to accomplish what he
has to do with much less Inconvenience.
expense or labor than he who farms
it in . desultory. slipshod manSer.
There must be system in doing every
thing pertaining to the farm; system
in doing every thing in time; system
in h.Yiag place for every thing. aud
ever: thing in its place; system in not
putting off any thing until tomorrow
that can de done to-day; system in
planning. in working, in graiD-grow-
ing, in stock-brceding and feeding; in
short system in every thipS.-Bclei-
saors SxA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26
THE SIZE OF MAN.
4 Claim That He Mover Had . Greater
Height Than ut Present.


Men of the present day have no occ; i.
sion to feel Inundated, because they
are not taller and larger than they are.
There is no reason. in the discoveries
Of science, for the supposition that men.
rs a whole. have ever had greater
average height than they have now.
For a long time, at Romans. in France.
near the junction of the Isere and
Rhonc rivers. there existed deposit
of gigantic bones which had long been
known as the Giants Field" In re-
cent times bones have been exhumod
there which were believed to be human,
and which were said to be those Of
Teutobodus. the King Of the Teutons.
who was overcome near the spot by
Marius, the Roman General. The re-
searches of Cuvier. however, proved
that these bones. together with all the
others exhumed in the same place.
were those of the diuotherium gt9as-
team, an extinct animal of the tapir
species, which measured about twenty
feet in length.
The myth of race Of giants has its
counterpart in those other creatures OF
Imagination, the pigmies. These tabled
people. who were 50 small that a stalk
of grain was tree to them. which they
chopped down with tiny hatchets and
brush hooks. we're said to inhabit Eth
opia. They were always at war with
the cranes, but lived on such. excellent
terms with the cartridges that they
were able to harness them into their
carriages. They lived at first. accord
ing to the fable. in Thrace. but were
driven out of Europe by the cranes.
and took refuge in Ethiopia. 1t is now
commonly supposed that the pism;es
were nothing more nor less than
monkeys of small size. like the mar.
moset. The pigmy's warfare with the
crane was probably the one grain Of
exact truth which survived in the tradi-
ton.
The stories of the pigmies belong with
the fables of the giants. The men Of
ancient times were of the same. Or
nearly the same height. as those of the
present day. The doors of the ancient
houses. the ancient armor, the Egyptian
mummies. as well as the bones of the
fossil men. prove that there has been
little or no variation.
Among famous tall meh was the
Roman Emperor Maximin, whose stat
ure was seven and three-quarters feet
Maximin was young barbarian. the
son of a Gothic father, who first at
tracted the attention of the Romans by
overcoming sixteen of their strongest
men, one after another, in wrestling
contest, and. having been made CEN
turion. fought and intrigued his way to
the imperial throne
The normal stature of men and
women ranges between four feet and
six feet four inches. Those who exceed
the latter height may be called giants.
while those who are below four feet are
called dwarfs. There have been dwarfs
scarcely one foot six inches in height
but even these have been considerably
taller than the tabled pigmies OF IN.
tiquity.-Honth's Companion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

~A, ocmmunicAucns Tor TINS paE4
sm TS~ not Necessarily fer publication. bui
- mn evidence Of good faith on the part Of
me writer. Write only en- 1ne siae OF w
paper. Be particularly careful IN e,S1n. 10y
hros plain ard district
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-26

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would" he went on. gathering from
our countenances that the search had
been a fruitless one; "'taint't time.
She's all right Oar amt no call to
howl yit l reckon"
The tone in which this was said
might have indicated that Abe knew
more than he wished to tell. and that
he had good reasons for his confidence
in the child's safety. Fatigued as we
were. however, niceties of emphasis or
meaning were lost on u.s.
When, several hours later, 1 awaken
ed from troubled sleep and prepared
for my work of the day. the situation
was unchanged. There was still no
news. Aunt Della, with no snatches
of song on her lips, stepped unsteadily
about her kitchen. Abe was nowhere
to be seen.
He done been runnin' up n down
fun de cellar all de mawnin'," said
Aunt Della, irritably, when l remarked
upon his absence. Pears like he goes
m hollers down in de coal-hole, n
den comes up yere n makes ugly talk
bout my cryin'. He amt de same man
he was yistiddy."
Nor was Uncle Abe any the more his
old self during the three days that fol-
lowed Our detectives. completely at
fault, were forced to rest the case with
the admission that they could gain no
clew to the child's whereabouts; and
as the time went by, Uncle Abe's &c
centricities of manner grew more pro-
n0unced and troublesome.
Else afeared Ise mizzable sinner,
Marse Will, he said to me. when /
rallied him gently upon his oddities;
''but l know dat ar baby's safe!''
As Delia's words in Heated. Abe k,d